Festive celebrations, flickering lights and winter greens are all hallmarks of the holiday season. However, they also present fire risks that can quickly turn into devastation. Holiday safety is an issue that burns brightest from late November to mid-January, when travel spikes and families gather to cook delicious meals. This year’s fire prevention theme is “Serve up Fire Safety in the Kitchen.”
Meditation may be able to help Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Learn about a meditative practice available through VA called the Mantram Repetition Program. Also compassion meditation.
Earning an advanced degree with little or no debt sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? But for health care professionals who take advantage of VA’s Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), it isn’t. One of the most comprehensive education support programs in the nation, EDRP provides up to $40,000 a year — or $200,000 over a five-year period — in loan repayment. “I still have a very large amount of medical school debt to service. The EDRP program helps to accelerate the pay off dramatically,” said Dr. Stephen Gau, a physician at VA Loma Linda Healthcare System in …
Important changes that require Community Providers to establish a contract with either Optum or TriWest to provide urgent care services or treatment for minor injuries and illnesses to Veterans.
Mitchell Caviness enlisted in the Army at 17 and immediately took up smoking “to fit in.” Nearly five decades later, the former mortarmen from the 101st Airborne wishes he hadn’t. Today, he credits a routine VA lung cancer screening for saving his life. Lung Cancer affects more than 7,000 Veterans each year and causes more deaths than any other cancer among Veterans. Unfortunately, most lung cancer cases diagnosed at VA are at advanced stages when curative treatment options are limited. But when lung cancer is caught early through screening, it is very treatable with either surgery or stereotactic radiation therapy. …
